This was based on the belief that women were not saved directly and personally, but only through their husbands. They had no standing with God, but only secondary standing through their husbands. Paul evidently followed this practice where the house churches were made up largely of Jewish people. Later on, when more of the house churches were made up entirely or largely of Gentiles, this practice was evidently dropped. The Seventh-day Adventist Church founders never followed this practice, nor does